A Second Chance - Film screening + Q&A with Rex Bloomstein
The Criminology Reading Group is hosting a special screening of the film "A Second Chance" followed by a Q&A session with the film maker Rex Bloomstein.
27th March 18.00 - 20.30
Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College
The event is FREE AND OPEN TO ALL, however booking a free ticket is recommended.
BOOK YOUR TICKET HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-second-chance-film-screening-qa-with-rex-bloomstein-tickets-97509446379
COFFEE, TEA AND BISCUITS INCLUDED.
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FILM SCREENING (90 MIN)
A Second Chance is a campaigning feature-length documentary that casts a spotlight onto one of the most marginalised groups in today’s society: Former prisoners.
Over 90,000 people are currently in UK prisons. Almost two thirds of those released are convicted of another crime within 12 months if they fail to find work – 50 per cent more than those who do find a job. And yet the vast majority of employers openly admit they will not employ an ex-offender.
A Second Chance confronts stereotypes and public perceptions by presenting both serving and ex-prisoners as real people with real problems. We meet inmate Tracey, horrifically abused as a child, she was brought up by the care system and has faced violence throughout her life. And David, playboy drug-dealer and part-time DJ, serving his third prison sentence. Both are on the cusp of release, and both have a unique opportunity to enter Timpson’s pioneering prison training programme that offers genuine employment at the point of release.
This is a film about hope. It is about the transformative power of work for those that genuinely want to change, and how employment can dramatically reduce the rate of reoffending for society as a whole.
Q&A WITH REX BLOOMSTEIN
Rex Bloomstein began his career as a documentary director in 1970 with cinema verité All In A Day studies of British life for the BBC.
Since then, he has made more than 150 single films, television documentaries and series with Human Rights, Crime and Punishment, and The Holocaust as his major themes of exploration.
A Second Chance is the latest film in a pioneering body of work spanning five decades that has exposed the realities of prison life and addressed aspects of the UK penal system previously closed to public scrutiny. This includes films such as The Sentence, Release, Prisoners’ Wives, Parole, Lifers and Strangeways, which won two British Academy Awards: Best Documentary Series and Best Single Documentary. In 2001 BBC2’s Timewatch commissioned Strangeways Re-Visited. Lifer – Living With Murder was broadcast in 2003, followed by Kids Behind Bars on Channel 4 in 2005.